Sexualised Violence and Trauma
Parallel Stories of a Jewish Woman and a Roma Woman
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
National Socialist physicians left women barren by experimenting on them. The Hungarian People’s Republic had women forcibly sterilised for racist reasons. Shame and the feelings of guilt produced by such sexualised violence can set in motion a female and an ethnic formation of identity. The life stories of Auschwitz survivor Róza and the Roma woman Mari, who was sterilised without her knowledge in 1970, make this emphatically clear.
(Osteuropa 6-7/2016, pp. 43–58)